• Twitter Ops: In the Belly of the Whale

    June 28th, 2010 : Rich Miller

    Seventy five percent of Twitter's traffic comes through third-party apps via the Twitter API rather than the Twitter.com web site, according to Twitter's John Adams, who provided an update on the company's operations Thursday at Velocity 2010. Read More

  • Network Struggles Persist at Twitter

    June 10th, 2010 : Rich Miller

    After several network-related outages yesterday, Twitter continues to struggle with latency problems today, according to monitoring from Netcraft. Read More

  • Twitter Back After Morning Downtime

    June 9th, 2010 : Rich Miller

    Twitter was down for nearly 90 minutes this morning following a briefer outage overnight. But overall reliability has improved, with uptime of 99.8 percent or better for 2010 thus far. Read More

  • Twitter Will Get Its Own Data Center

    April 16th, 2010 : Rich Miller

    Twitter will be moving to its own data center soon to accommodate the rapid growth of its service, the company said yesterday. Read More

  • Twitter Using BitTorrent to Speed Servers

    February 10th, 2010 : Rich Miller

    Twitter will use file distribution technology from BitTorrent to boost the performance of its back-end infrastructure, which has required constant attention to keep pace with the growth of the popular microblogging service. Read More

  • Roundup: Force 10 Networks, Avocent, Facebook

    November 23rd, 2009 : John Rath

    A roundup of news from Interop, including announcements from Force 10 Networks, AFORE Solutions, Sun Microsystems and Avocent. Also, new data and news on social networks Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Read More

  • Twitter is Frozen, and Then Thaws

    October 8th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    What if the real-time Internet gets stuck? That seems to be what happened for several hours today with Twitter. Read More

  • How Much of Twitter’s $100M is for Servers?

    September 28th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    Now that Twitter has raised $100 million, how much of that will go for serversand network costs to support its incredible growth? Read More

  • Twitter in ‘Combat Mode’ As Attacks Continue

    September 9th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    Twitter has been the target of additional denial of service attacks in the wake of a major outage on Aug. 6, but enhanced defenses implemented by Twitter and NTT America have helped minimize their impact. Read More

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